PRAISE FOR THE DCI MARK LAPSLIE SERIES:
Daily Mirror: “DCI Mark Lapslie is Nigel's finest creation . . .
Immaculately constructed and beautifully observed”
Daily Mirror: “Gripping”
Los Angeles Times: “As repulsive and engaging a killer as any encountered in recent memory”
London, May 2020 – Audible, the world’s leading provider of audio entertainment, is to bring four compulsive crime thrillers by bestselling screenwriter, author and former police officer Nigel McCrery, creator of the multi-award-winning BBC drama Silent Witness, to audio for the first time in May, with each title narrated by Years and Years’ Glen McCready.
The four heart-stopping thrillers will be released throughout May and are each part of McCrery’s hugely popular DCI Mark Lapslie series. The titles are: Scream (6th May), The Thirteenth Coffin (13th May), Flesh and Blood (20th May) and Bloodline (27th May). They join the first two books in the DCI Mark Lapslie series, Tooth & Claw and Still Waters, which are already available on Audible. All four audiobooks will be narrated by Glen McCready (Years and Years, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures).
Nigel McCrery is British screenwriter, author, filmmaker, playwright and ex-police officer. He joined BBC drama in 1992 and during his time there, created and wrote a number of prime time dramas including Silent Witness, Born and Bred, Touching Evil, Back-up, Impact and New Tricks.
Nigel is the author of several crime thriller novels, including the Silent Witness novels and the Detective Mark Lapslie series. In addition, Nigel has written several books about the First World War, including All the King’s Men which became a major BBC film starring David Jason and Maggie Smith, and achieved the second biggest BBC drama audience of all time.
In Scream, DCI Mark Lapslie is sent a sound file from an anonymous source of a woman screaming in pain, until she dies. Why is she screaming? Why would someone record that horrifying noise? And why send it to him? He soon learns that the file was sent from the hospital where he is being treated for synaesthesia – a neurological condition that cross-wires his senses so he tastes sound. When a body is discovered, the most shocking murder scene Lapslie has ever encountered forces him to realise there is a violent killer out there. Will Lapslie find the killer? Who will have to die before he does?
When a bride is shot dead on her wedding day in The Thirteenth Coffin, her killer disappears without a trace. But then the decomposing body of an unidentified homeless man is found in an old bunker, and DCI Mark Lapslie makes a bizarre discovery: hidden near the body is a shrine full of miniature wooden coffins. Each coffin contains a doll, all dressed differently, with one dressed as a bride. Could this be a link to Leslie's murder?
In Flesh and Blood, during the murder investigation of a teenage boy, DCI Mark Lapslie's methods come under fire and, as a result, his prime suspect walks free. Meanwhile another body is discovered and Lapslie and his team quickly find themselves on the trail of a voracious serial killer.
Finally, in Bloodline, when Isabel, a British university student, travels to a remote Spanish town it isn't only to enjoy the atmosphere. It's also to trace how and why her family name might have derived from the town, a quest her father, Sebastian made nine years ago, not long before his death in a car accident. But as Isabel, aided by local guide Mauricio, starts digging into her family's possible links with Alarcon, she's unprepared for the dark secrets uncovered; secrets that the current ruling nobility of Alarcon are keen to keep buried.
Scream, The Thirteenth Coffin, Flesh and Blood, and Bloodline will join a wealth of gripping crime thrillers on Audible, including: Fiona Barton’sThe Child, narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Clare Corbett, and Finty Williams; Joy Ellis’ Jackman & Evans series, narrated by Richard Armitage; and K. L. Slater’s The Apartment, narrated by Tuppence Middleton and John Chancer.
